The easiest way to picture the significance of Poland for Jews before WW2 is to show a map speckled with hundreds of dots marking Jewish communities.
With all of them displayed at once our map would be illegible, yet all cities and, most of all, small towns once inhabited by Jews can be located. Beside their location, our database contains basic information on their history, number of Jews, Holocaust destruction, extant sites and memorials.
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Locality: GNIEZNO

Name: Gnesen

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: poznańskie

Województwo w 2007: poznańskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 41 km E of Poznan

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1267

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 16th c.; the Great Poland Land Councils assembly place; in 1744 with 60 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 395

Procent: 1.5

Holocaust:

Getto: In 1939 deported to the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto.

Zaglada: Treblinka, 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 1846

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: Roosevelta Str.

Czas powstania: New, early 20th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: school building

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07